The culling of approximately 33,000 dairy cows under the CWT is
ready to begin. Dairymen across the country submitted 2,552 bids
for the CWT milk reduction payments. Whole herd buyout bids made up
2,038 of those total bids.

Dairymen who submitted bids are being notified this week whether
they were successful or not. State by state information on the
number of successful bidders is not yet available. For the full
news release from the CWT program see:
http://www.cwt.coop/news_release_091603.doc